{"id":518106,"date":"2026-03-06T12:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T12:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/518106\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T12:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T12:11:10","slug":"tom-aspinall-dana-white-has-no-issues-with-eddie-hearn-after-tom-aspinall-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/518106\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Aspinall: Dana White has ‘no issues’ with Eddie Hearn after Tom Aspinall deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dana White says he has “no issues” with Eddie Hearn after UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall signed for the boxing promotor’s new talent agency.<\/p>\n

Britain’s Aspinall joined ‘Matchroom Talent Agency’<\/a> on Thursday in a “commercial and advisory” deal rather than a promotional one, meaning the 32-year-old remains signed to the UFC.<\/p>\n

The move comes two weeks after boxer Conor Benn left<\/a> Hearn’s promotional outfit Matchroom to join White’s Zuffa Boxing.<\/p>\n

Hearn, 46, has been publicly feuding with UFC president White since the launch of Zuffa.<\/p>\n

Speaking before UFC 326 on Saturday, White compared the deal to his relationship with Tito Ortiz – a fighter White used to manage prior to a long-lasting feud.<\/p>\n

“We don’t have any issues with Eddie, they can get whoever they want to represent them,” said White. <\/p>\n

“Tito Ortiz used to represent people but we got it done.”<\/p>\n

Aspinall has been dealing with eye problems since his title fight with Ciryl Gane last October had to be stopped because of repeated eye pokes.<\/p>\n

He had double eye surgery in February and it is unclear when he will be able to return to action.<\/p>\n

Aspinall became embroiled in the Matchroom-Zuffa Boxing feud when Hearn suggested White “humiliated”<\/a> him by not backing the fighter after the eye controversy.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the news conference, White confirmed the fights for the UFC’s unprecedented show at the White House on 14 June will be announced on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The UFC is spending $60m (\u00a344.3m) to host the one-of-a-kind event in Washington DC to mark 250 years of American independence.<\/p>\n

A number of fighters have expressed interest in competing on the card including Jon Jones, Conor McGregor, Alex Pereira, Amanda Nunes, Nate Diaz and Islam Makhachev.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dana White says he has “no issues” with Eddie Hearn after UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall signed for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-518106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}